KP/JK/5 - Career, and related
Reference code
KP/JK/5
Level of description
File
Title
Career, and related
Date/s
1936-1956
Scope and content
Selected items are described in separate item records.
Other contents:
Consists of a single file of printed ephemera relating to Jessie Kenney's service as a stewardess with Furness Line and Orient Line, 1929, 1936-38.
Includes: Circular on the Cocos Islands, ss 'Ormonde', 18/12/1929, to which is attached two cuttings from the 'Church Times', undated, referring to a visit to the Cocos Islands by Rev. C.D. Horsley, Bishop of Colombo Brochures etc issued by Orient Line.
Copy of 'The Seaman', vol. 12, no. 615 (new series), 5/8/1936 [retained for item 'Nonunionist stewardesses get a good tip from passengers', p.5?].
Pamphlet, 'The Missions to Seamen. A Summary of the Work of the "Flying Angel" Mission in 1938'; pamphlet 'From the Bristol Channel to the Seven Seas. The Story of 100 Years Work for Seamen', The Mission to Seamen, 1938.
Plan of Passenger Accommodation. Motor Ships 'Pacific Reliance, Pacific Enterprise, Pacific Exporter', Furness Line, undated.
Two copies of 'The Seafarer', no. 89, January 1956, which includes a reference to Jessie Kenney in an article 'Libraries of Long Ago' (p.14); Flyer for Merchant Navy Week, Southampton, 17-24 July, 1937, with ms notes by JK on verso [added later when drafting her autobiography?].
See also correspondence from Lord Willoughby de Broke (KP/JK/3/WIL) and London County Council KP/JK/3/LON.
Other contents:
Consists of a single file of printed ephemera relating to Jessie Kenney's service as a stewardess with Furness Line and Orient Line, 1929, 1936-38.
Includes: Circular on the Cocos Islands, ss 'Ormonde', 18/12/1929, to which is attached two cuttings from the 'Church Times', undated, referring to a visit to the Cocos Islands by Rev. C.D. Horsley, Bishop of Colombo Brochures etc issued by Orient Line.
Copy of 'The Seaman', vol. 12, no. 615 (new series), 5/8/1936 [retained for item 'Nonunionist stewardesses get a good tip from passengers', p.5?].
Pamphlet, 'The Missions to Seamen. A Summary of the Work of the "Flying Angel" Mission in 1938'; pamphlet 'From the Bristol Channel to the Seven Seas. The Story of 100 Years Work for Seamen', The Mission to Seamen, 1938.
Plan of Passenger Accommodation. Motor Ships 'Pacific Reliance, Pacific Enterprise, Pacific Exporter', Furness Line, undated.
Two copies of 'The Seafarer', no. 89, January 1956, which includes a reference to Jessie Kenney in an article 'Libraries of Long Ago' (p.14); Flyer for Merchant Navy Week, Southampton, 17-24 July, 1937, with ms notes by JK on verso [added later when drafting her autobiography?].
See also correspondence from Lord Willoughby de Broke (KP/JK/3/WIL) and London County Council KP/JK/3/LON.
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KP - The Kenney Papers
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KP/JK - Jessie Kenney
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KP/JK - Jessie Kenney